A Dishonest War (Ted Kennedy alert)

Washington Post ^ | 01/18/04 | Edward M. Kennedy

[Pokey78]

Of the many issues competing for attention in this new and defining year, one is of a unique order of magnitude: President Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq. The facts demonstrate how dishonest that decision was. As former Treasury secretary Paul H. O'Neill recently confirmed, the debate over military action began as soon as President Bush took office. Some felt Saddam Hussein could be contained without war. A month after the inauguration, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said: "We have kept him contained, kept him in his box." The next day, he said tellingly that Hussein "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction."

The events of Sept. 11, 2001, gave advocates of war the opening they needed. They tried immediately to tie Hussein to al Qaeda and the terrorist attacks. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld created an Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon to analyze the intelligence for war and bypass the traditional screening process. Vice President Cheney relied on intelligence from Iraqi exiles and put pressure on intelligence agencies to produce the desired result.

[Paul Atreides]

Please, W, the next time you are with this gelatinous a-hole, be courteous and continue with the new-tone, and, upon his leaving, shove him down the White House steps.

[Jeff Chandler]

Amen. If the Bushes wish to continue with their gracious, classy behavior towards the disloyal opposition, the should at least freeze them out and stop rubbing elbows with them.

I wouldn't care to be in the same room with someone who aggressively slandered me as a liar.

[Paul Atreides]

Not everyone can have as stellar a background as The Lifeguard.

[HankReardon]

Ted Kennedy, the day you left a woman to drown in your car and went home and got out of your wet clothes and wondered what to do about it while yachting the next day is the day your opinion on anything no longer matters to any decent American. How dare you criticize President Bush? What is wrong with the people of Massachusetts to continually re-elect this shameless socialist?

[IncPen]

I'm sure Mary Jo would have a few things to say to Mr. Kennedy about honesty.

If she were alive.

[Cicero]

Politics demands that you reward your friends and punish your enemies. It's definitely time for Bush to punish this sack of cow manure.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Senator Pig Vomit can write?

[bfree]

Isn't he dead yet? His message certainly is.

[MEG33]

Well said!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Please, W, the next time you are with this gelatinous a-hole, be courteous and continue with the new-tone, and, upon his leaving, shove him down the White House steps.

You are correct.

It will be gravity that eventually snuffs out this stink pot.

He's survived an AIRplane crash and a car plunge into the WATER.

This fat devil will only be stopped by the ground itself, even though I kinda like the lightning scenario.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

What is wrong with the people of Massachusetts to continually re-elect this shameless socialist?

It is the same folk who twice elected the great stainmaker who also keep electing the swimmer.

The land of Barney Frank needs more record bitter cold as punishment!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Not everyone can have as stellar a background as The Lifeguard.

Ronald Reagan was credited with saving 77 swimmers when he was a young lifeguard in Illinois.

Don't ever use that term to describe Kennedy!!!!

He is and will always be refered to as

THE SWIMMER

[Hacksaw]

Ted, the war is over. Saddam is captured. Get over it.

[bannie]

I think he'll spend eternity with Bill and Hill in the "sold their soul to the devil" department of hell.

[Dog Anchor]

Kopechne, Joseph

December 24, 2003 Joseph A. Kopechne, 90, of Swiftwater, died Dec. 24 in Stroud Manor Nursing Home, East Stroudsburg.

Born April 25, 1913, in Forty Fort, he was the son of Frank and Mary (Leitinger) Kopetchny. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps. He worked at the shipyards in New Jersey during World War II and was employed by the Washington National Life Insurance Co. He attended Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church, Tannersville, and was a member of the Knights of Columbus.

He was preceded in death by his only child, MaryJo.

Surviving, in addition to his wife of more than 60 years, the former Gwen L. Jennings, are his brother, Raymond; many nieces and nephews.

A memorial Mass will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Vincent's de Paul Roman Catholic Church, Church Street, Plymouth, with the Rev. Donald Williams officiating.

Funeral arrangements are by Kielty-Moran Funeral Home, 87 Washington Ave., Plymouth.

[j.frank.dobie]

" [Senator] Kennedy, on the other hand, is not new to anything — including, I believe, all seven of the deadly sins and the naughty side of at least nine out of ten of the Ten Commandments."

Jonah Goldberg
January 15, 2004

[Ranger]

Bin Laden isn't in Iraq. Our attack on Iraq has done virtually nothing to prevent al-Qaeda from attacking us again. I suspect that before the November elections, OBL et al will remind us that he is very much alive and well.

[Doc Savage]

For some strange reason Mary Jo Kopechne thinks the "Swimmer" is an asshole! Go figure!